11.24.14 BACK PAGE: Free Beer and Hot Wings back on the air in northern Michigan

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11.23.14

THEY'RE BACK!
Free Beer and Hot Wings are back on the northern Michigan airwaves
After an absence of a year and a half, the Grand Rapids-based Free Beer and Hot Wings morning show are back on the air on not one, but two northern Michigan radio stations.

Cadillac's WKAD 93.7 and Petoskey's WMBN 1340 - both airing a sports format called "The Ticket" and owned by Trish MacDonald Garber - added FB&HW recently to their schedules. The show only airs from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. so they could air Dan Patrick.

Previously, FB&HW aired on Real Rock 105 and 95-5. However, the show was dropped from the simulcasting sisters in late March 2013 and 95.5 flipped to a low-rated easy listening format, "Easy 95-5". 105.1 still airs a rock format as "Rock 105" with morbidly obese Brian "Cartman" Pfiffer handling mornings. The main reason for FB&HW's departure from 105.1/95.5 was due to the effect on the ratings of sister classic rocker The Bear and their milquetoast morning show, Bob and Tom. 

For a while, it looked like FB&HW would reappear up north on WOUF 99.3 out of Beulah, a station that was silent for nearly two years but was previously rock as "99.3 The Wolf". 99.3 is back on the air, but as a conservative talk format. 

However, WMBN and WKAD's signals are class C and A respectively, and only eyelash kiss the Grand Traverse Region. FB&HW are also carried on classic rock WWTH Thunder 100.7 Oscoda, which has a marginal signal to Mio, West Branch and Alpena.

11.20.14 Bee-otch of the Day: any retailer open on Thanksgiving

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: retail outlets
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: killing Thanksgiving

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For decades, when people thought of Thanksgiving, they thought of staying home with friends and family, watching the Macy's Parade and football, and yes, noshing on turkey and all the trimmings with family and friends.

Of course, people would wake up early the day after because of Black Friday, huddling into the stores to buy items for dirt cheap for Christmas. But in recent years, that has become a thing of the past.

Many stores are saying "TO HELL WITH THANKSGIVING!" and keeping their stores open on that somewhat holy day to give customers a early heads up on Black Friday. And yes, Walmart kinda started that revolution, but other stores have followed such as Sears/Kmart, Target, JCPenney and yes, Macy's. Some claim that stores keeping their doors open on Turkey Day is pretty much a Republican idea. Well, it's not: Kohl's - once owned by the family of former Wisconsin Democratic Senator and Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl - is open next Thursday.

Yes, here in Michigan, Meijer has been open on Thanksgiving for years, as part of their 24/7/364 policy. They only close on Christmas.

I know the sick, sad feeling of having to work on Thanksgiving; when I was in my early 20's, I worked at an Iraqi-owned convenience store in northern Michigan as a stockboy. My boss asked me to work that day, but I had to attend a Thanksgiving party at my stepfamily's. We discussed it, and he told me that he wanted to stay open that day since we would be the only store in town that would be open and it would be the most-profitable day of the year for him. So, we bargained, and when my family had dinner I went to the party. It was somewhat embarrassing since I wasn't there, but that's what happens when you're stuck in retail.

I hope to God that if I were to lose my job, I don't get stuck in another embarrassing retail situation where the work hours are weird and employees hardly make jack shit in money. Sadly, my mother works in retail, and because of her hours, I haven't spent the holidays with her in years. No Thanksgiving, no Christmas.

It's sad when people have to work on a sacred day like Thanksgiving so their bosses can make some extra cash, especially in retail. True, some businesses should remain open on holidays, such as gas stations and restaurants for those who don't have family or friends to turn to. But personally, I think retail stores need to be boycotted on Thanksgiving, period. I don't give a damn if they've only got 18 60-inch LED smart TVs for $250. I think Thanksgiving should be a day of being thankful, not being thankful that you have a job.

But, be thankful if you work at Costco, Barnes and Noble, Lowe's, TJ Maxx/Marshall's/Home Goods, Home Depot and Burlington Coat Factory; all those stores will remain closed for the holiday. Sam's Club is also closed, despite being Walmart's sister.

Don't even THINK about staying open on Christmas.

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11.19.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Bill Cosby

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Name: Bill Cosby
Age: 77
Occupation: therapist with a space between the e and the r
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: allowing the hits to keep on coming...

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Since we honored Dr. Cosby (and why he's considered a doctor is beyond sad) on Monday, two more women have revealed that they were raped by the comedic legend.

Joan Tarshis was just 19 and an aspiring actress when she claimed that the Cos raped her in 1969. She claimed that the two were working on his first Cosby Show for NBC (The Bill Cosby Show) when he invited her over to his bungalow. He made her a cocktail and she remembered waking up on his couch while he was taking off her clothes. However, she was conscious enough to tell him that she had an infection on her vagina and that if he had sex with her, his wife, Camille would catch it. So, he simply performed oral sex on her.

However, Tarshis was attacked twice by Cosby; the next time, she was drinking with him at a theatre when she felt shaky. The next thing she remembered was waking up next to him at a hotel.

And like many of Cosby's victims, she told nobody because they would believe her.

But that's not all! Model Janice Dickinson revealed on last night's Entertainment Tonight that Cosby raped her in 1982 while she was auditioning for a role on The Cosby Show while it was under development. She was fresh out of rehab and Cosby invited her over to dinner. He gave her a pill for stomach pains and some red wine. The next thing she noticed was that she wasn't wearing pajamas and Cosby was on top of her. She tried to talk about it in her 2002 autobiography, but Cosby and his lawyers C&D'd her from doing so.

Meanwhile, an ironic - and frightening - stand up bit Cosby did in 1969 called "Spanish Fly" has surfaced, with the comedian talking about how we was trying to score the date rape drug.

You know, it's sad that a man that had been well-respected for decades is now looked at as somebody who deserves to be locked up for having some really, really, REALLY sick skeletons in his closet. It's amazing at the number of women that were his victims over the years and FINALLY, people are taking the wool off their eyes. William Henry Cosby needs to tell his side of the story instead of hiding behind his lawyers. Personally, he's nothing more than a fraud who got his respect only because he's black. If he was a white dude, he would have fallen into obscurity 50 years ago because simply, he's not funny.

A few nights ago on NBC Nightly News, an internet expert claims that the allegations will die down. OK, so is OJ Simpson the murderer? 20 years later...

Something tells me that there's probably a few more girls in the pipeline.

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11.18.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Northern Broadcast

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Name: Northern Broadcast
Age: 34
Occupation: broadcast giant
Last Seen: Minot, ND
Bee-otched For: *supposedly* selling

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Say it ain't so... One of the worst broadcast companies in Michigan history could be soon out of business.

Last week, a rumor was created on the Michigan Radio and TV Buzzboard that Minot, ND-based Northern Broadcast might soon be sold to another broadcaster and that one of the names being thrown into the hat was Townsquare Media.

Here in Grand Rapids, T2 owns several successful stations, including WGRD 97.9, WFGR 98.7, Channel 95-7 and 100.5 The River. Here in Michigan, they also own stations in Flint, Lansing and Kalamazoo.

Northern Broadcast has been in the northern Michigan market since 1984 when they purchased WKLT 97.5/98.9 (then at 97.7) for $250,000. Since then, they've added on what is now 92.5/94.3 The Fox and ESPN 106.7/105.5. They've long been criticized for programming mostly to older people and rednecks, mainly due to the fact that the company was one of the only non-local companies owning a radio station in the Traverse City/Petoskey radio market.

KLT is the only station of NBI's whose format hasn't been touched, even though in the last ten years, the station has drastically cut back on its 1990 and newer songs and focusing more on being a classic rocker. 92.5 and 94.3 was previously oldies WAIR but flipped to country "The Bee" in the late 90s only to gradually flip back to classic hits as "The Fox" around five years later. 106.7/105.5 has had a more-troubled history due to NBI's mismanagement. When they purchased 106.7 in 1996, it was CHR WKPK "106.7 The Peak". But in 2000, they started transforming the once-successful station to AC as WSRT, which bombed in the ratings and led to its PD, Todd Martin to get canned when it was discovered that he was sending fake Arbitron diaries to the ratings service. It then flipped to female-oriented talk as "You FM" and then to sports as ESPN, which is reportedly doing much better in the ratings.

Alongside format flips, NBI was notorious for firing experienced jocks over cost-cutting such as Craig Russell, Jim Ellis (twice), Pete Misiak (the last two being since deceased)and Finster, who successfully ended up on 104.5 Bob FM.

But, that's the reality of NBI, a company who only owned stations for their money with no regard to listeners or audience. Bear in mind that their owners, the Gokey family, own a Pepsi bottler in Minot, which probably makes more money than the stations.

It's also worth mentioning that longtime NBI GM Charlie Ferguson is leaving the company at the end of 2014 and will run a cluster of stations in Illinois. Under Ferguson, WKLT is still the top rock station up north, but it's mostly due to the only rock station with a full-coverage signal and their Stern clone morning show Omellette and Friends. Also, The Fox has turned into a bland classic hits station and the aforementioned problems with 106.7/105.5.

True, T2 has been well-criticized too for firing experienced jocks, especially in Grand Rapids where many from 98.7 WFGR have seen pink slips. But the Traverse City/Petoskey market's problem is simple: despite the fact that most of the radio stations are locally owned, they suffer from the fact that most of them are programmed for the baby boomers and older and many of them - such as The Bear and EZ 95-5 are ratings abortions. Trish MacDonald-Garber (106 KHQ, Lite 96 et. al) is 61, Del Reynolds (The Bear, Rock 105, EZ 95-5 and Big Country 102.9) is 57 and Roy Henderson (WLDR) is in his 60's, so all of them want to attract an older crowd to their stations since northern Michigan is practically Florida north. (For the record: Ross Biederman, owner of WTCM, WCCW and Z93 is 74.)

Some think the biggest problem up north is a lack of another country outlet to combat WTCM, which has been #1 forever. The Bee failed and so did Sunny Country 101.9. My biggest issue is indeed the lack of a good new rock outlet, especially in the Grand Traverse area. A poster on the Buzzboard had a good point: flip 94.3/92.5 to a new rock format. Since T2 owns the Loudwire format, plus the fact that they beam Free Beer and Hot Wings to a lot of their stations, I think it's a go. FB&HW is well-missed up north ever since the old Real Rock 105/95-5 canned the show claiming low ratings (which I think is a lie since their sister station, The Bear also has the bland Bob and Tom show). Plus, I think it will benefit T2 since it would create a "wall of men" with KLT and ESPN in the same group.

All I can say is that 2015 might be an exciting year for northern Michigan radio. In a few weeks, I will go my yearly Facebook ratings to reveal which stations up north are doing well and which should die like the plague. But if it's true that NBI is going out of business, I say good riddance. They pretend that nobody under the age of 40 exists up north and they cater to them. When I was young, NOBODY wanted to do a cutting edge, kick-ass rock format. That was why when the internet came out in the 1990's, many stations up north saw their ratings drop like a rock. It wasn't until 2000 when The Zone finally realized that there was an audience that was being ignored and almost immediately, ratings exploded. It was poor management that killed the station, IMHO.

Time will only tell what will happen to KLT, The Fox and ESPN. In the meantime, if I was up north, I would be very thankful that 4G speeds are dramatically improving. 

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11.17.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Bill Cosby

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Name: William H. Cosby, Jr.
Age: 77
Occupation: rapist
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: keeping his mouth shut and hiding behind a lawyer

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It's no secret that Bill Cosby's star has been fading over the past few weeks all because of something he did a decade ago and was buried by the press.

Several weeks ago, comedian Hannibal Buress attacked the legendary comedian and wearer of fancy sweaters during a standup routine that was uploaded to YouTube. He referred to him as a "rapist" and having a "Teflon image". Last week, one of Cosby's alleged victims, Barbara Bowman wrote for the Washington Post about her testifying in court against Cosby, who told the judge that the comedian drugged and raped her. She testified for Andrea Constand, who claimed Cosby raped and drugged her too. In the end, Cosby settled with Constand for an undisclosed amount of money.

Since then, Cosby asked his fans on Twitter to meme him. The result was multiple images of him with captions saying everything from "I don't remember raping that girl and neither does she" to "my two favorite things: Jello and rape". So far, the comedian hasn't done much to protect his career. During an interview with NPR on Saturday, Cosby was asked if he raped anybody and all he did was shake his head "no". He flat-out refuses to talk about his charges, and on Sunday morning, his lawyer told the media that Cosby will no longer talk about anything having to deal with his allegations.

A few weeks ago, it was announced that The Queen Latifah Show was not going to air an interview with the rapper/actress with Cosby and on Saturday, producers of Late Show With David Letterman also announced that an upcoming interview with the aging comic was canceled as well.

Folks, I knew for years that Cosby had a Teflon image. Does the name Autumn Jackson ring a bell? She was the alleged daughter between him and a Las Vegas woman, Shawn Upshaw in the early 70's. Cosby paid Upshaw $100,000 to keep hush-hush on the relationship, but in the mid-90's, Jackson revealed their relationship while trying to extort $40 million from Cosby, which she ended up spending 26 months in jail for. It doesn't surprise me that Cosby would want to rape those women, given the fact that he's the type that tells people to pull up their pants while he doesn't do the same when a hot chick beams in front of his eyes.

Personally, if I were Camille, I would realize that Bill is a fucking loser and divorce his ass. He's worth an estimated $350 million, so she could take a shitload of that money and run. I know, she had five kids with him, but, come on! 14 allegations?!?! Love child!?!? Sorry, but an idiot who tells kids to stay away from drugs, stay away from porn, stay away from rap music and so on, but yet he smokes cigars, hangs out with Hugh Hefner and allegedly rapes young women is not deserving of any respect.

If I were Cosby, I'd admit my faults. Look at Bill Clinton: admitted his illicit affair and it saved his presidency and his marriage. But as long as he keeps his mouth shut, Cosby is just like school the day after a mass shooting: no class.
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11.13.14 Bee-otch of the Day: society

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Name: society
Age: ageless
Occupation: life
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: causing people to skip the polls

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If you were on Facebook yesterday, chances are that you couldn't escape the sight of Kim Kardashian's giant ass.

The proud wife of Kanye West popped her prized pumped pooper for Paper Magazine, and the interwebs went wild. Of course, many were disgusted with Kim's decision to show the world her exposed tush, some even pointing out that well, she's a mom. Thankfully, comic Chelsea Handler came out a few hours later with a shot of her bum in a selfie. Not shabby for a woman who has done semi-nudity for Playboy and those shower sketches on her now-canceled E! show. For a woman pushing 40, Chelsea has picked a good time to show the goods.

But while the world is getting a stiffy from looking at celebrity booty, it's time for me to play Debbie Downer.

On Tuesday, a piece of bad news broke that hardly got a wink of notice: last Tuesday's mid-term elections were not very well-attended.

As a matter of fact, it was the least-attended mid-term election since 1942, when many of our men were serving in World War II. The United States Elections Project reports that just 36.3% of all eligible voters voted a week ago Tuesday. Only seven states had more than half their eligible voters voting and no state even cracked 60% of total voters. Even worse, the country's three largest states - California, New York and Texas - only had a 1/3 of eligible voters voting and New York only had a 28% voter turnout.

For the record, my state, Michigan was 17th place with a 42.7% turnout, tied with Connecticut.

So, why the low turnout? Simple. People are not happy with the current political system in America. 53% of people polled are unhappy with the Democrats while 56% have that same grief with the Republicans. The Republicans are turning more and more towards the wealthy while the Democrats are becoming more moderate to get more conservatives on their side. Plus, let's not forget the multitudes of negative political ads that aired during the election that turned off voters and caused them to flip channels.

You know, I wonder why people - even Democrats - hate Obama. True, he just threw 1,500 more troops to Iraq to fight the continuation of the war Dubya started over a decade ago, but overall, you gotta remember that since he took over the presidency, unemployment has fallen in half and best of all, he captured Osama. Bush couldn't do jack shit in the eight years in office since he was worried about maintaining his father's failed legacy.

It's too bad that Americans decided to stay home or come straight home from work instead of electing our leaders. I hope that people will learn that Obama can't run the country himself. Instead of passing laws that will benefit the Americans, the only employers who will end up benefiting are the companies that make stamp ink for Obama's veto stamp.

But in happier news, maybe if you're nice, Ms. Handler will show off her cooch in a few weeks. 

   
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11.12.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Bill Cosby

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Name: Bill Cosby
Age: 77
Occupation: angry old man
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: getting pwnt on Twitter

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For over 50 years, Bill Cosby has proven to the world that a black dude can be classy.

True, he doesn't cuss on stage and he tells kids on how to live their life, but while he tells young black men to pull up their pants, he doesn't do the same when he sees a young, beautiful woman.

In recent months, Cosby's career has been in somewhat turmoil because it was revealed that he settled a case out of court regarding a woman who claimed that the comedy legend raped her. Since then, 14 more women have claimed that Cosby raped them, with some cases dating back all the way to the 1970's.

Several weeks ago, comedian Hannibal Buress launched a tirade on Cosby during one of his stand-up acts calling him a rapist and stating that he had a "Teflon image". Since then, Queen Latifah had canceled an appearance from Cosby on her show and some critics have trashed him for having a two-faced image.

But now, the Cos has a cause for alarm, and it's because on Monday, he released a Tweet asking his fans to "meme me!", well, he soon learned that not all his friends on Twitter are his friends at all. Type in "#CosbyMeme" on Twitter, and you get such images as Cosby wearing headphones with the caption "now I can't hear you say 'no'", another with the picture of Cosby above with the caption "define drugged", another with Cos wearing a brown hat with the caption "drugged teens say that darndest things!" And so on, and so on....

But yes, Bill Cosby is a hypocrite, my friends. He's a man who used Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids to teach kids about saying no to drugs, smoking and even porn, but he would smoke big fat cigars and hang out at the Playboy Mansion all the time. Yes, that's the great Bill Cosby, folks: a Teflon prick who deserves to have all those memes shot at him on Twitter. Maybe if he could step up, be a man and admit that he raped all those women years ago, he could show some sign of dignity. But, God no! He's too committed to Camille, his wife of 50 years. And monkeys fly out of my ass.

I'm no racist, but if I published a dictionary, I would show a picture of Bill Cosby to illustrate the n-word. 

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11.11.14 Bee-otch of the Day: John Balyo

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Name: John Balyo
Age: 35
Occupation: former Christian radio jock
Last Seen: Battle Creek, MI
Bee-otched For: getting the book thrown at him

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It's official: it looks like John Balyo will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The ex-Christian radio host at WCSG 91.3 here in Grand Rapids was sentenced by a Calhoun Co. judge yesterday to 25 to 50 years in prison for raping an 11-year-old boy in a hotel room. He showed no emotion entering the courtroom and exiting it, plus when a representative for the family of the young boy released a statement stating that Balyo deserves to rot in prison.

Balyo will see yet another judge one county over in Kalamazoo for a similar crime with a young boy. However, he might be in prison for both crimes simultaneously.

Balyo was arrested last Summer at a Christian music festival in Gaylord after it had been revealed that he had sexual relations with two minors. He was fired by WCSG on that Saturday and the station's manager released a brief statement on the air during his old morning show that Sunday.

I've said this many times: it's pathetic that many who listen to WCSG fought to get Howard Stern off the air many years ago when he was on WKLQ 94.5. They didn't want a man who throw bologna at strippers' asses to poison the minds of the young. Yet, they put their utmost support in "family friendly" John Balyo, who seemed to be clean cut and a good person for children to listen to with their moms in the mini-van en route to school. In his 40+ years in radio, I heavily doubt that Howard would even think about molesting a child, especially since he has three girls of his own. Balyo was a sick fuck who was nothing more than a Teflon Christian who was married to a woman and lived a Christian life on the outside, but inside, he was a pure monster who preyed on small children. Thankfully, he will never do that ever again.

John Balyo: the man who made young boys cry, including the one who was born in a manger.

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11.10.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Parents Television Council

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Name: Parents Television Council
Age: 19
Occupation: right-winged hate group
Last Seen: Alexandria, VA and Los Angeles, CA
Bee-otched For: worrying about the Peanuts while the elephants walk by

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On Devil's Night, millions of children were anything but traumatized.

No kids were screaming or scared because of a horrific and rancid image on their TV screen: Kerry Washington making out with two white dudes at different times.

On that day, ABC aired a telecast of You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown back-to-back with a sexy new episode of Scandal starring the Django Unchained actress. Just 26 seconds between a G-rated scene of Sally kicking a locker door, viewers were treated to a PG-13-rated sequence starting with Washington swimming in a pool. Then, she's thrown onto a bed by a white dude - probably naked - and the two start kissing. Then, the guy goes down on her (with no nudity being shown), and the two end up kissing again. Then - briefly - Washington is thrown around with her back in the air, implying the two doing it doggystyle. The scene ends with Washington fantasizing that she's having sex with two men at different times and it ends with her at the edge of the pool with some old black dude telling her to wake up.

And according to the Parents Television Council, 26 seconds between the end of a Peanuts special and an FCC-approved sex scene with a modern version of Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze" playing in the background shown at 9 p.m. on an over-the-air network like ABC is not OK.

PTC president Tim Winter said in a statement: “In less than 26 seconds we were taken from the ‘Peanuts’ pumpkin patch to a steamy ‘Scandal’ sex scene... Unless parents had the remote control in their hand, thumb on the button and aimed directly at the TV screen, they didn’t have a chance. Such a transition is grossly irresponsible by the network and entirely unfair for parents. ABC owes families an apology.”

You know, folks? This is why this country is ass backwards in terms of over-the-air TV. I was talking with my cousin's English girlfriend last year on this topic, and in her home country, full-frontal nudity is allowed after 9 p.m. Here in America, even though the FCC has no real laws banning nudity on TV, even basic cable networks are afraid just because assholes like the PTC and others would make it an issue. I'll betcha that if ABC showed some guy getting beheaded after the Charlie Brown special ended, nobody would even care.

Saturday night, NBC rebroadcasted a 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live starring Rick Nelson. One of the sketches showed Gilda Radner portraying Candy Slice, a drugged-up punk rock singer who sings a tune called "Gimme Mick" as part of a benefit fighting yeast infections. The lyrics of "Gimme Mick" go like this:

"Gimme Mick, gimme Mick 
Baby's hair, bulgin' eyes, lips so thick 
Are you woman, are you man 
I'm your biggest funked-up fan"
The song's full lyrics showed that that late comedienne said "funked" four times, but as far as I know, no TV station has ever been slammed with a notice of apparent liability from the FCC since it first aired 35 years ago. However, when the episode was repeated on E! over a decade ago, "funked" was indeed bleeped out.

And don't get started on Prince, either, wanting to funk so pretty you and me, Erotic City come alive.

So far, I haven't read about the PTC blasting NBC for airing Gilda *allegedly* screaming the F-word on a sketch that was probably repeated many times uncensored, but since it aired at c. 10:30 at night (9:30 Central), this might cause some issues.

But that's what the PTC is good for: promoting sex. People hate prudes, PTC included. So, what happens is that when the PTC trashes a TV show for being too sexy, people will watch. I'll admit, I never watch Scandal, and watching the scene, I was more offended by the lack of nudity (it wouldn't shock me if they were simply wearing underwear) than the fact that they were acting like they were having sex, even if it was simply simulated.

Oh, and here's some nudes of Ms. Washington. She needs to shave if that's not a merkin.

The PTC: telling you what's good for you, even if one of the members of their "Advisory Board" is none other than Billy Ray Cyrus. 'Nuff said.


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11.6.14 Bee-otches of the Day: The Democratic Party

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Name: The Democratic Party
Age: 186
Occupation: supposed left-wing political party of the U.S.
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: making a whole lotta mistakes

---Well, this will be an interesting and awkward next two years.

Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Congress and the Senate will now hold Republican majorities for the next four years after their victory Tuesday night. Many put the blame on President Obama, others blame the Koch Brothers and quite simply, society is to blame.

Or maybe, just maybe, the Democratic Party itself has turned into, ahem, "Republican Lite"?

Yes, that's what some people are referring to the Democrats now: Republican Lite. In order to get votes in red states, the Democrats have tried diligently to appeal to traditional Republicans simply by refusing some traditional Democratic policies to appeal to them. But in the process, it alienates the Democrats' most-liberal supporters, which explains why even at a 14% approval rating, Congress is still in the red, and some believe that they will continue to own the House until 2022.

But it's true: the Democrats are simply losing ground because instead of staying liberal, they're taking too many steps back and attracting an audience that's out of their league. To me, a Democrat trying to get Republican voters reminds me of what's been happening to modern rocker WGRD here in Grand Rapids as of late. They've been adding more classics to their playlist to attract listeners to WLAV who've been slightly alienated by Detroit Tiger games airing on the station. The result? They crashed from a 6.9 last Spring to a 5.2 in the Summer. It could be worse: they could take some listeners away from country B93 by playing Taylor Swift and Garth Brooks, but then I would be thankful that I listen to my music on the internet these days.

You see, we need another FDR in the house. However, Obama is *you guessed it* Republican Lite. He is a Democrat, but since he's been weak to fight against Congress and hasn't done a whole lot of anything since Obamacare was passed, it's no wonder why many of his far-left supporters like Michael Moore have abandoned him. I remember his political ads from 2008 where they talked about creating a moderate health care initiative instead of going with full-blown government-run healthcare. But even with the ADA being passed into law, we're still behind other nations with a single-payer healthcare system, like Canada or England.

Sometimes, I look into history and wonder, when did the Democrats fuck up? FDR saved America's ass and created the middle class thanks to him jacking up taxes for the wealthy, which were needed. However, he died in 1945 and his policies died over time. Sadly, Truman had to deal with a Republican senate and house, which killed him, and JFK was a man of promise whose life was cut short because of an assassin's bullet. LBJ lost lots of credo over Vietnam and Jimmy Carter, well, didn't do much. Of course, that allowed Reagan to really fuck up the system with his tax cuts for the wealthy. In my 30 years on Earth, the only president that has come close to being a true liberal was Clinton, but he had his problems. He allowed Telecom '96 to totally fuck up the broadcast industry and killed jobs in radio and TV. He passed NAFTA and even worse, allowed Al-Quida to use American soil to train for 9/11.

Clearly, I could go on. But thanks to Al Gore choosing a Teflon Democrat, Joe Lieberman to run with him in the 2000 election, once again, Democrats felt abandoned and Bush was (almost) guaranteed a victory. Just imagine if Gore chose a REAL Democrat to run as his Veep: 9/11 would have never happened, we wouldn't have to fight the war in Iraq, 7,000 innocent souls would still be alive and gas prices would be ridiculously low because he would force automakers to make cars reliant on alternative energy over pollutants. But, nope! Just another Democrat trying to attract somebody from the wrong team.

Folks, if the Dems want voters again, they need to get their fucking tail from between their legs and DO THEIR FUCKING JOB. When Obama was elected president, we had Dems in all three houses. THE FIRST THING THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IS BEGIN PROCEEDINGS FOR GEORGE W. BUSH FOR HIS WAR CRIMES. But, nope! He's a free man despite the fact that he's wanted in several countries for war crimes.

IMHO, Obama is a helluva lot better than Bush, but he's far from perfect. Yes, unemployment has dropped and gas is at its lowest in years, but he has got to stop being a centralist and be a true leader. He needs to quit alienating the left AND the right! PICK A SIDE!

In the end, I hope Tuesday's disaster doesn't end in a Repuke taking over the White House again in 2016. Even more, I hope it's NOT a Bush. I kinda hope that it's not Hillary, either since she took bribe money from the right in the 1990's to not do a thing about improving healthcare. I don't mind Joe Biden running, but will he win?

2016 seems to be a long time away.

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11.5.14 Bee-otch of the Day: the Koch brothers

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Name: Charles and David Koch
Age: 79, 74
Occupation: owners of Koch Industries
Last Seen: Kansas
Bee-otched For: once again, buying Tuesday's election

---It's official: Obama only had two good years to turn this country around.

On Tuesday, the Republicans once again won the House and now, they officially own the Senate. Great, now we have TWO houses beating the same drum over and over: LET'S GET RID OF OBAMACARE! LET'S GET RID OF OBAMACARE! LET'S GET RID OF...

Even more bad news here in Michigan, Rick Snyder will be governor for another four more years. He only beat Mark Schauer, though, by four points (the margin between him and Virg Bernero in 2010 was much higher).

Now, Obama will have to work harder to maintain his policies and to tell both houses that love him or hate him, he's more popular than them.

What might be more sickening is that currently, Congress only has a 14% approval rating while Obama has a 46% rating. But yet, the same assholes who fucked up this country over the past four years will be there for another four, well into the next president's term.

But, that's what America wanted, and that's what we're gonna get: more shit for the next two years. All I can say now is that I hope to God that our next president in 2016 will still be a Democrat, especially if the top nomination is Jeb Bush.

But, that's what happens when you have the Koch brothers running things.

Ever watch the evening news as of late? Lots of BS that the Senate would be controlled by the Republicans. In my mind, that's because, well, look at the commercials: some middle-aged lady talking about drilling through shale (you know, fracking), Angel Soft, Sparkle paper towels, etc. Yep, that's the Koch brothers 4 ya. When a company buys air time on the evening news, you better tell the viewers what they, the sponsor want them to hear.

Americans, you can kiss your freedoms goodbye. We'll have more school shootings because the Repukes are pro-gun and women will go back to coat hangers for abortions. The other day on The Howard Stern Show, Jerry Springer said it right: young people just don't vote in mid-term elections. They only think that the president is worth voting for. Thing is, the president can't work effectively unless he has a proper Houses to deal with!

Thanks, America, enjoy your crow.

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